This World AIDS Day 2017 Webinar, reviewed why despite strong scientific evidence-backed policies and programmes, we are still failing to avert every TB related death among people living with HIV (PLHIV). TB continues to be the lead killer of PLHIV. According to the latest WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2017, 374,000 TB related deaths were among PLHIV in 2016. Of the almost half a million reported cases of HIV-associated TB, 15% were not on antiretroviral therapy (ART) as recommended by WHO. TB preventive treatment is expanding among PLHIV but most people eligible for TB preventive treatment are not accessing it. In 2016, an estimated 10.4 million people fell ill with TB in 2016: 10% were PLHIV (74% in Africa). According to the WHO, the risk of developing TB is estimated to be between 16-27 times greater in PLHIV than among those without HIV infection.

PANEL OF EXPERTS:

* Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, President of International AIDS Society; and Professor of medicine and Deputy Director, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Chief Operating Officer, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation

* Dr Ishwar Gilada, President of AIDS Society of India (ASI); one of the first doctors who began HIV care when first case got diagnosed in 1986 in India; and founder leader of People's Health Organization (PHO)

* Nomampondo Barnabas, a TB survivor and person living with HIV; and Civil Society Liaison Officer, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)

MODERATORS:

* Ashok Ramsarup, International award winning journalist and former Senior Producer, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Durban, South Africa

* Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor, CNS (Citizen News Service) and lead author and editor of Best Practices in Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis 2013

For more information check out: www.bit.ly/tbhiv

Thanks to the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union) for support.

CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org
Website: www.citizen-news.org

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